The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1916, Page 4

THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Bully, BY Stuheper earners: Oi mail, '. Weekly, by matte ; jember Audit Bureau of Circulation THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER STAT (stablished 1 LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12 noon, December 16, 1916: Temperature at 7 a. m. « ‘Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity . For Bismarck ad vicinit: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; colder to- night. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; colder tonight. Temperature Calgary . -i4 Chicago . Galveston . Havre . Helena Kansas City Miles City Moorhead . St. Paul .... Swift Current Williston ... ‘Winnipeg ... Meteorologist. SOSEHOSCHSOESEOSOS ¢% ‘he sure way to be cheated & @ is to fancy ourselves more 4% © ciinning , than, others—le- > @ Rochefoucauld. 7) SOE SEOSEOOSOS ES ‘COMMERCIAL CLUB. It is a wise plan to dispense with the social activities of the Commer- cial club and concentrate all efforts toward movements for the welfare of the city. Bismarck has reached a stage in its development where it needs the driving power of an ener- getic civic organization. When the new, board and officers are elected, special attention should be given.to a thorough reorganiza- tion .of ape club. ‘The anndal. ban: quet' ihditatea “a widespread interest in' the lat: *“Aif that is neeiléd is to hatéps’ wdtiié' of the: energy ‘frianitest: ed ‘aid direct it into profitible- ¢han- nels. ‘ f There. is much’ to’commend in the’ work of last year. The Gommercit! club initiated’ several ‘projects that haye beer. Heneficial.,to. the city. ‘was a center to start the ball rolling upon many occasions. ‘As a sort of civic incubator, an ac- tive commercial club is indispensable to the city. Every effort should be put forth to place the club.on abet- ter, footitig: erga .. The moat‘important work akead iof the club now is to see that Bismatck secures proper freight rates so that it can develop more rapidly as a dis- tributing center. This kind of work calls for a rate expert. A rate man should be secured to handle traffic matters and act as general secretary. His services would save shippers of the city considerable sums each year in addition to developing Bismarck as & jobbing center, and check any in- Juriows , discrepancies in rates. The railtodde tine always’ ready ‘to correct rates’ that “seeth to’ diserim- inate, but it ig, egsential to ‘have a man on the job constantly working these tariffs out. Let us start the new year right. PEACE AND BUSINESS, American business could hardly have been more panicky had Ger- many declared war on United States instead of merely enlisting her serv- ices as a peace advocate. The see-sawing, the tottering and the frantic efforts of speculators to soothe and calm the market, merely serves notice that after all we are living in a fool’s paradise and the day of reckoning will surely come. The Wall Street Journal sees no legitimate basig for the market’s at- tack of nervous prostration. There Probably is none, so far as peace is concerned, but the inflation that has been going on during the last two years is bound to suffer under the slightest pressure, real or fancied. AWhile most people pray and hope for an early and lasting peace, yet in their hearts few believe that such a consummation ig possible. Despite the bad breaks in the wheat pit and the slump in the war brides, our rail- road terminals are choked with freight. There is a congestion at the seaboards unparalleled in the com- mercial life of the nation. The de- mand for equipment is as brisk as ever and steel orders have swamped the factories. But what really happened was this: The American people are more or less convinced that the exceptional pros- perity of United States is dependent upon the human slaughter in Europe. Even vague rumblings of peace were sufficient to precipitate a near panic. Peace probably will bring greater demands from industrial America than war has. There will be a se- vere period of readjustment, of course, tate. good is will be the most important factor in the reconstruction of Europe. England’ answer so far to Ger- many’s peace proposals hag been a call for $10,000,000,000 of new credit and 1,000,000 more men for the west front. Developments on the stock curb and in the wheat pit are as Mable to be as spectacular after Lloyd George speaks in the House of Com- mons next Tuesday as they were de pressing when Hollweg gave his fam- ous peace talk this week before the Reichstag. Unless England is disposed to enter peace deliberations, the war brides will be restored to favoritism and wheat will recover and add new lus- tre to its value. “Wheat,” whether there is peace or not, is bound to regain losses. The supply is known and the demand Is apparent. Trained economists know the price fixing propensities of old| Supply and Demand. The world must eat, whether it fights or not. WHY HESITATE? Resolutions that are not worth mak- ing now, are not worth making sim- ply ‘because a iNew Year is about to start. If you've got to wait for some special occasion to turn over a couple of new leaves of your life book, those leaves are right liable to blow back again when the occasion dies out. If you would become an abstainer from booze, smokes or cuss words, ab- stain when the idea first hits you. Do it while the abstaining ig good. Then, if you find it does not agre2 with you, when New Years comes . you can “swear” yourself hick to. the “old stuff” ‘again.. And vou’re pretty sure of keeping that res%lution, atter you have tried it both ways. Tie majority of resolutions made as the church bells start merrymak- ing on a wild revel New Years eve, are bunk with a iitge B. It is easy to forget. If yoa have anything in mind that world a better place for you to hve in, end for everybody tn general. 10 live in. DO IT NOW! Oftentimes, he who hesitates is lost. | i Ay TO. FORGET. “The toxes have holes, ‘and the birds of the air:have nests; but the son’ of’ man hath-not: where to tay his head.”— Matt, 8:20, This ig a Bible’ verse which almost anyone can repeat.’ There is a per- sonal reaction to the. words, “hath not where to lay'his head,” which makes them not to. be forgotten. ‘They express what is most forlorn in huitjan experience. What dread is so terrgble as that of being without shalt If a friend's house burng de ‘hurry ;to offer.help and sym- a tity is stricken we raise funds for the’homeless, as in the San Francisco fire. But when a nation’s population is driven from the shelter of its homes, When the women, children and old ™men of a hundred towns have not where to lay their heads, we accept the horror because “This ig war.” ‘We can measure war economically by its cost in money; we can value it scientifically by its marvelous in- struments of destruction; we can com- pute it potentially by the size of its ‘armies and navies; but we ca nnever estimate it humanely because we have no gauge for human pain, We know what misery would mean to us if we were set adrift on the face of the earth.in Christmag weath- er, but we cannot imagine the ag- onies of a people whose homes ‘are in the line of advance of some “tre- mendous offensive,” Yet there is a sad. toll of little na- tions which have been martyrs in the strife of the great powers: Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Armenia, Montenegro and now Rumania. It is not possible to estimate the total of the refugees, exiles, orphans and outcasts which this war has made, the great hosts of derelicts who have not where to lay their heads. We think of projectiles, shells, gre- nades, liquid fire, shrapnel, bayonets, Pistols and knives ag the munitions of war. But war has other weapons— cold, famine, disease and death for non-combatants when they are home- Jess. It is not only the soldiers who count in war’s losses. Any war is a war on the helpless as well ag the strong, on babes as well as men. And for every shout of those who rejoice over victory there rises the wailing of cold and hungry children in the land which has suffered de- feat. Cal Soldiers as individuals are not nec- essarily responsible for the robbing, burning and murdering of innocent victims; any army in action ig in it- self an instrument of atrocity; like a plague of locusts, it sweeps a green country brown as it passes. Even the foxes which have their dens and the birds of the air which have their nests are more fortunate than the helpless civilians of a van- quished land. In the gayety of the most cogtly Christmas known in the world—as is this of 1916 in the United States— it is easy to forget that the earth is crowded with grief-worn wanderers. In truth the horrors of the great war have passed far beyond human,com- prehension, but that is no good % one may, to resulve, and a blamed gight easier |) is worth doing to make thia little old}, GERMANY’S PEACE PLEA ONLY A TRUCE (Continued from Page One) and the Atlantic port she wants so much, She could annex Switzerland and get the world’s greatest water Powers. With these alone she could override all commercial competition around the globe and be borne up to inconceivable wealth and power. Eyes on ‘America. Still, it was a master’ mind that made this move at this time. We have got to hand it to the kaiser. This was his devising and nobody’s else. He has shown at other times a knowledge of the mental operations of other nations that seemed uncanny. But this beats them all. Think of hig knowing ‘that a vast population in America, never under- standing what the war was about, would be ready to cheer peace on any terms and failing to get it might Push over an embargo act that would paralyze Great Britain, It was America he was playing for and we have now to see how much he gets of it. The Allies will have to refuse the terms and the war will go on, with every speech in the reichstag begin- ning with: “We offered to make peace but our enemies were wickedly determined to prolong the horrors of war.” G Instead of peace you will probably see more determined fighting, greater activity, greater expenditures, greater taxes. There is now nothing on which the fight can be called off. ‘Nothing has been decided go far..except the tre- mendous advantages ‘of a nation that carefully presses forward and the handicap of a nation that trusts to peace and popguns. In the very nature of things the unparalleled sacrifices of so many peo- ples cannot be turned off that way. In this world of. ours war isn’t like a scenic waterfall in a playhouse that you can turn on, and off as you like. When you. turn, it.on something has to ‘be settled before you can turn it —_—__ : | GRAIN MARKETS ; o—____... DULUTH December ... « 168 May .. + 170% a + 166% . 1 Hard on trk ~ 16914) . 1 Northern on drk .. 16814 . 2 Northern ‘on trk.. 160%@165%4 No. 3 Northern on trk.. 14044@160%4 No. 1 Northern to arr.. 16814! . 2 Mont. Hard on trk 163%; . 2 Mont. Hard to arr 163%4' . 1 Spot Durum ..., 170% @172% 2° Spot Durum .... 162%@167% No, 1 Durum to arr .... 170%@172% December . + 170% May + 172% Oats on trk and 46%@ 47 Rye on trk". 128 @131 Rye to arr. 128 @131 Barley on trk ; 73 @110 Flax on trk 28314: Flax to arr ... 283%! Choice Flax on trk . 284 December -. 28014 May . 286% May High PITT Low .. « 165 Close 12:37 p. m. MINNEAPOLIS No. 1 Hard ,.... + 170%@175% No. 1 Northern . 167% @17014 No. 1 Nor. Choice .. ..173% Regular to'arr . 166% @169%6 Choice to arr’. 171% No. 2 Northern . 162%2@16815 No. 3 Wheat .... 145%)@165% No. 2 Mont. Hard + 1621%4@165% No. 2 Mont. Hard to arr 162% No. 1 Durum oe 168% No. 1 Durum Choice .... 172%! No. 1 Durum to arr .... 167%} No. 1 Dur. Choie to arr 152%! No, 2 Durum ...... ++ 162%.@167% No. 3 Yellow Corn . 874%4@ 88% No. 3 Yellow Corn to arr 874! Other Grades ......... 1% .@ 86 No. 4-Yellow Corn to arr 85%) No. 2 W. Mont. ........ 51%@ 53% No. 3 White Oats .... 47. @ 47%: No. 3 White Oats to arr 4714 Ne. 4: White Oats ....... 45%@ A6%, 77 @101 "107° @110 129 @130 Rye to arr /. +» 129 @180 Flax ..... ‘ 279% @2841, Flax to arr . 27914 @28414 December 167% May 1W%@ % UNION STOCK YARDS. HOGS—Receipts 16,000; market, steady to five cents higher; mixed and butchers $9.50@$10.25; good heavy $9.70@$10.15; rough heavy $9.65@ $9.80; light $9.20@$10.00; pigs $7.35@ $9.15. : CAZTLE—Receipts, 500; market, steady; beeves $7.00@$11.75; cows and heifers $3.85@$10.00; stockers and feeders $10.05@$8.10; Texans $7.90@$9.10; calves $8.50@$12.00, SHEEP—Receipts 3,000; market, steady; natives $8.85@$10.00; west- ern -$9.00@$10.00; lambs, natives, $11.00@$13.15; western $11.25@ $13.35. 2 ST. PAUL. CATTLE—Receipts, 400. Steers, $4.50 to $7.00; cows and heifers, $4.85 to $7.00; calves, $5.00 to $11.25. HOGS—Receipts, 2300. Range, $9.60 to $9.75. SHEEP—Receipts,' 2700. Lambs, $10.00 to $12.25; ewes, $8.50. TWELVE HOUR DRIVE NETS 824 RABBITS Amidon, N. D., Dec. 13—Champion rabbit hunters of Midway, this coun- ty, shot 824 rabbits in a 12-hour drive, the event being celebrated by a rab- bit banquet. L. M. Engelson’s team of hunters won the honors with 471 rabbits, the losers, piloted by G. D. Easton, bagging 353 rabbits. The ral bit hunts are organized on the com- munity basis as a means of eliminat- ling the pests, which have become so numerous that they cause heavy grain losses. MINER CAUGHT IN CAVE-IN NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER Mineral Springs, N. D., Dec. 16— Caught in a cave-in of a lignite coal mine near here, J. H. Thompkins was so seriously crushed he may die. Res- eg worked several -hours releasing BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE DRINKING OF WATER (By, M. C. Lucas, M. D.) The general conclusions of the lat- est medical scientists proves © that drinking of plenty of pure water both between meals and with one’s meals is beneficial to health. been proven by means of the X-rays and actual tests upon many healthy young men that the drinking of water with meals is not harmful to diges- tion, Those suffering from a catarrh- al condition of the stomach will find benefit in adding about 10 grains (one- sixth of a level teaspoonful) of bak- ing-soda to a pint of hot water, drink- ing it a half hour before each meal. Such as are inclined to hyper-acidity should drink a pint of medium cold water, two hours after meals. If you ever suffer from headache, lumbago, rheumatism or any of the symptoms of kidney trouble—such as deep col- ored urine, sediment in urine, getting out of bed at night frequently and other troublesome effects, take a pint of hot water and a little Anuric be- fore mea's, These Anuric tablets can be obtained at almost any drug xtore and were first discovered by Dr. Pierce, American men and women must guard constantly against kidney trou- ble, because we eat too much and all our food is rich, Our blood is filled with uric acid which the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become sluggish; the elim- inative tissueg clog and the result is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and often the poison reaches the tissues, causing rheumatism and gout. ~When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead, when your back hurts or the urine is cloudy, full of sediment, or you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night, when you suffer with sick headache or diz- zy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weath- er is bad, ask your druggist for Anur- ic, I have found in practice that An- uric is more potent than lithia-and- in most cases it will dissolve the uric acid as hot water does sugar. ———OOOOOOOO BULGARIAN CITY TS BOMBARDED Petrograd, Dec. 13.—Official dis- Patches here from the war office re- port the successful bombardment of Eakchik, despite the enemy's attack of shore batteries. Zeppelins and sub- marines attacking were unharmed. The bombardment. was with the view of destroying mills supplying. Bulga- rians with flour. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room; 802 Ave. B. Phone 528. FOR RENT—Modern furnished room; 507 Fourth St. 12-16-3t FOR SALE—Watkins’ remedies, ‘Main street. Phone 212U, 12-16-3t ‘NT mpetent girl for house- work. Mrs. W. F..Crewe, 20 Ave. A. Phone 625. ¥ It has also; McKenzie Hotel. McKenzie. DEFENDANT FOR Judge Ellsworth . Paints Word Picture of Part. Little Prair- ie Chicken: Plays ——.. The Durant agsault case is in the hands of the jury. Judge’ Nuessle’s charge was given late this afternoon after the final plea for the state had been given “ by . State’s Attorney Berndt. Both Judge S. E. Ellsworth and Attorney F. H. Reggster made the pleas for the defense. The part that the little prairie chicken played in the trial was em- phasized by Judge Ellsworth in his re- marks,. It wag small, he said, but had considerable motive to influence the principals in the action. He pictured the little prairie chicken to the jury as having been hatched on the priarie close to the Durant farm and how the defendant . discovered it .one day among a brood of turkeys in his do- mestic establishment, e “The chicken ran around with the little turkeys,” stated the judge. AFFECTION OF To The Public Having leased the Northwest Hotel, corner Fifth and Main, opposite the McKenzie Hotel, I desire to ‘antounce to the public that the ‘house will be placed in first-class condition and be ready to receive guests by January 1, 1917. A large crew of men’are now at work remodeling and repairing the interior of the hotel, and work will be rushed night and day until the build- ing is ready for occupancy. The hotel will be equipped with forty bath rooms, and will have hot. and cold running water, electric lights and steam heat in every room. It will be conducted as a first-class European hotel at moderate prices. Those. desiring first-class accomodations at low rates, should make their reservations now. Address Aaron Christopher, Head Clerk, Edw. G. Patterson, Proprietor Northwest ‘was killed. Mt. Durant prized it, and I suppose much beyond its _ actual value, Now, of course, there are many legal questions which might arise as to whether he-had a property in the prairie’ chicken and. which might be enforced in’ the courts, “But the important element in this trial is, that the defendant is alleged by the state to have shot with the in- tent to kill the prosecution witness, You cannot find in the evidence that the gun was aimed at the prosecuting witness, but that it was aimed at an- other and an entirely different object and’ not with the intent to kill or cause the death of the Mr. Spies.” SEVERAL IOWA BATTERY MEN INJURED IN WRECK Grapeland, Texas, Dec. 16.—Several members of Battery A, Iowa first field artillery, were injured when a broken rail on the International Great (North- ern railway caused two Pullman cars to leave the track this afternoon. The injured were taken to Palestine. DIFFERENCE OF ONE VOTE; - LOW MAN FILES CONTEST Hoping that a recount may over- come a difference of one vote in favor of his opponent, Lorenzo Joos, defeat- ed at the general election for a place on the Mercer county board by Com- missioner...Stoeling,, hag. filed contest proceedings. Stoeling’s vote was 225, .and; Joos’s, 224..,,.A number of, charges are ‘cited in ‘the complaint. :. John 1. Sullivan of. Manden repreg Jas. 4 ents k It and L. U; Stambaugh: of: Dickinson i6 {\- soon grew a top knot. That was when | appearing for. Stoeling.)- spit eat} the members of the Durant family, dis- covered that it wag.a prairie ‘cl We are all interested in these beauti-+ le chicken..4,,,, ‘Ben Bendickson ‘of Huff and Master ful wild birds. There ig.a certain af-|Frank Hogan:of Tappen are among would develop out, of it. \. ex-| fection. which attaches to birds of this }the recent. arrivals. at the S. Alexius tracts and spices, delivered;..8 West kind. The family wanted to see what:|/hospital.;,,Those,,toleave the same institution were: ry, Reuter, Gar- “Now this bird had been on the Dur: |Tison;' Miss Emma ‘Link, Golden’ Val- ant farm from tne ear © peige my “part of June | ley; 12-16-3t |to the seventh of September when it | Arntz, Burngtad; Mrs. Alex. Honcho- Henry Harrison, City; Mary “Soo | { roff, Max; Misg Theresa Fetter, Beu- lah; Mrs. W. EB. Richard and ‘baby, (Raleigh; Mrs. N. J. Krebsbach, and Master Daniel Krebsbach, City. UNDERGOES X-RAY. G. J. Keenan, register of deeds, un- derwent an X-ray examination at the Bismarck hospital yesterday. Mr. Keenan has been confined to his home by illness for over a week. His condition is not thought to be serious. ‘To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI- NINE Tablets. Druggists refund mon- ey if it fails to cure. E. a GROVES ic, signature is on each box. FACTORY PRICE SHOES SAVE A DOLLAR TWO 1500." FACTORY BRANCHES: ore: ‘ ri 'or Foot. © FREISE & SON 219. 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